WEBVTT CLOSER TO HEAVEN? >> TONIGHT WE'RE TAKING A RIDE WITHA FAMILIAR FACE, TO SHOW YOU HOWHE'S SHEPHERDING SOULS, FROM THEBACK SEAT.>> I PRESSED MY UBER APP. >> BISHOP DAVID ZUBIK WAS SLOW TOEMBRACE THE DIGITAL AGE.>> I CALLED MY DRIVER.IT SAYS SEAN. >> BUT YOU WOULDN'T KNOW IT,WATCHING HIM REQUEST AN UBER ON HIS I-PHONE, LIKE A MILLENIAL.>> YOU'RE READY TO ROLL?>> READY TO ROLL. >> DRIVER SEAN FERGUSON AND HIS SILVER VOLKSWAGEN, READY TO TAKETHE BISHOP FROM IS RESIDENCE ATST PAUL SEMINARY, TO HISDOWNTOWN OFFICE.ZUBIK CALLS SEAN, AND ALL UBERDRIVERS, HIS GUARDIAN ANGELS. >> BUT IT IS BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THEIR STORIES AND SEE THEIR DEDICATION. SOME OF THESE ARE DOING IT AS A SECOND OR THIRD JOB BECAUSE THEYNEED THE MONEY. SO MANY OF THEM ARE JUST SO GRACIOUS TO BE A PART OF, YOU KNOW, GETTING THEIR CUSTOMERS FROM ONE PLACE TO THE NEXT. FOR ME, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT AN ANGEL DOES. >> UBERING, A WAY OF LIFE, OUT OFNECESSITY, A DEBILITATING BACKCONDITION LEFT HIM WITH NOFEELING IN HIS RIGHT FOOT.LETTING GO OF DRIVING, IS PAINFUL.BUT HE'S TURNED A BUMMER INTO A BLESSING. >> FOR ME, IT IS SUCH A PRIVILEGE.WE HAD THE CONNECTION BEFORE BUTEVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE UBER DRIVES THAT I'VE HAD, IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO MEET THEM. THEY ARE ALL SO UNIQUE. IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECTWITH PEOPLE ON A GRASSROOTS LEVEL.>> YOU COULD CALL THIS CONNECTIONCOINCIDENCE, OR DIVINEINTERVENTION, SEAN SAYS HERECENTLY OT A RIDE REQUEST FROMA DAVID AT DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, ON THE SAME DAY HE ASKED GOD FORA SIGN. >> I'M LOOKING FOR DAVID. I GAVE A WAVE TO THE BISHOP.LOOKED BACK AT MY PHONE.I LOOKED BACK AT THE BISHOP AND OF COURSE HE IS LOOKING AT HIS PHONE.I'M LIKE YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!>> NOPE.NO KIDDING, THE BISHOP WILL STILL LOOK ABOVE FOR GUIDANCE,BUT HE'LL CONTINUE TO LOOK DOWN AT HIS PHONE, FOR A TRUE PICK MEUP. >> UP TO THIS POINT, I SAW THE GUARDIAN ANGEL AS BEING MY DEAR MOM UP IN HEVEN.I WOULD SAY SUSIE, YOU HAVE TO HELP ME THROUGH THIS ONE. NOW I SEE PEOPLE LIKE SEAN AND ALL THE UBER DRIVERS THAT I HAVE, THEY ARE GUARDIAN ANGELS. >> HE NORMALLY SITS IN THE FRONTSEAT BUT TO ACCOMMODATE OUR CAMERAS HE SAT IN THE BACKSEAT. DID SEAN LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU?HE'S THE FORMER DAYTONUNIVERSITY STUDENT WHO SURVIVED A LIGHTNING STRIKE, HE'S DOINGGREAT.SEAN'S GRANDFATHER, RON BENTZ,

Although Pittsburgh Catholic Bishop David Zubik was slow to embrace the digital age, you wouldn't know it by watching him request a ride on his phone like a millennial. It's a way of life for him now after a debilitating back condition left him with no feeling in his right foot.